- Here are some hidden iPhone features
you may not have known about.
The first, setting your default web browser.
Sounds kind of boring,
but Apple is really sneaky about this in the Settings app.
- Right, and this is how we're gonna prove to you
that this is not a click bait video.
This is legitimately a hidden feature.
- Legitimately.
So if we open up Settings,
right now my default web browser is set to Safari.
So I'm gonna scroll down.
- This is a later tip. That's supposed to be a later tip.
- That's a later tip.
Open Settings.
I'm gonna scroll down to Safari right now.
Tap on Safari.
Right now you cannot change your preferred web browser,
'cause it's set as Safari.
Now, what if I go into Chrome, tap back to Settings,
scroll down to Chrome.
Default web browser,
let's tap on that, and let's just select Chrome.
Why not?
So now Chrome is my default web browser.
Tap back to Chrome, tap back to Settings,
scroll back up to Safari again.
Tap on that.
Default Browser App.
- Comes outta nowhere.
So now here's where I get kind of annoyed.
Default Browser App is now an option.
Okay. - Okay, great.
- So let's tap on that.
If we select Safari again,
watch what happens here.
Safari, tap back, it's gone.
- Poof, it's gone.
I mean, I can't believe it's hidden.
Especially with Chrome,
I think this is an important point to make
because why would somebody on an iPhone wanna use Chrome?
Well, there's a whole lot of reasons,
especially if you use Chrome on a PC or a Mac,
there's a lot of synchronization that Chrome can do
that Safari can't do if you're a Google person.
So, definitely a setting to watch out for.
Can actually save some headaches.
- Next up, we're gonna talk about spotlight search,
something that is really popular in Macs,
not so much on iPhones.
- I love this.
I use this all the time.
And I think you should, too.
- So to do this, go back to the home screen on your iPhone,
and then swipe down from somewhere
in the top of the screen.
Now, what if you're watching one of our settings videos,
and we're talking too fast and you can't keep up,
but you remember they said something about
reduce white point.
So we're gonna tap in reduce white point here,
and look at that, Settings.
- It goes into the Settings app.
And if David taps on that now, he'll go right to it.
So, search does a lot more
than just search the Settings app.
It searches Mail and Notes, Safari history.
It searches apps.
This is how I open apps on my phone 99% of the time,
because I'm not gonna swipe through and look for things.
- Yeah, especially not with the App Library.
I have moved so many things just off my home screen
and to the App Library.
I guess you can go to the App Library
and search there, too, but...
- Exactly, it's a separate search, though.
- Separate search.
- Spotlight brings it all together.
And it's customizable.
So what if you had a dating app on your phone,
like Match or something,
and you didn't want that to be showing up
whenever you're searching for something or,
it's a secret.
- Yeah, well-
- It could be embarrassing if you're in public.
- Let's go back to the main page of the Settings app.
We're gonna scroll up here to Siri & Search.
Tap on that,
and then scroll down here to your list of apps.
Now, if you don't want one of these apps
to show up in search, tap on it,
then tap the switch next to Show in Search.
Turn that off.
- The other switch in here that's important is Suggest App,
because whenever you swipe down from the screen
Siri starts to pay attention
to the apps that you're opening most frequently.
- Go to the home screen. - Yep.
- [Both] Swipe down
- [David Lynch] Clear that out.
- Yep, and then at the top,
it'll have David's most frequently used apps.
If you don't want an app to appear there,
because it's a dating website or whatever,
just go into the Settings app,
and you you can turn it off, suggest this app,
or whatever it's called. - Turn that switch off
next to Suggest App.
- And so it might take a little bit of customization
to get you to be comfortable with it,
because god knows anything can appear in this search.
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Next up we're gonna talk about
LED flashes for notifications.
Back when I had an Android
I thought this was a pretty neat feature.
I could just,
the dot shows up when you have a notification.
You can set that up on iPhone, too.
- I never knew that you were an Android person.
- Yeah, back when, you know...
- I just never knew that about you.
- 11 years ago.
We're gonna go back to the main page of Settings.
There we go.
Tap on Accessibility.
Then tap Audio/Visual.
Scroll down, LED Flash Alerts.
Tap that switch.
Turn it on. So now you got a couple options here.
LED Flash for Alerts, when you get a notification.
Also, Flash on Silent.
- So my beg of you is to just be careful of this feature,
because it can be kind of annoying for people.
You may have seen it earlier in this video
when it accidentally went off,
but David's gonna send me a text message.
You're mindin' your own business,
everything's hunky-dory.
Yes, ma'am, I'll have the chicken cacciatore today
with blue cheese on the salad.
And then I'm ordering my meal in a restaurant,
and all of a sudden across the restaurant I see
this goin' on.
And it's goin' on all the time,
because some guy figured out how to turn it on
and thinks that it's totally not annoying
for everybody else in the restaurant.
Has this happened to me before?
Maybe.
Anyway, please be careful of this feature.
Only use it if you need to.
It's really made for people
that have difficulty hearing.
- Next up, there's a way
to make your iPhone passcode a lot more secure.
So let's open up the Settings app.
Go back to the main page of Settings,
and tap on Face ID & Passcode.
I'm gonna enter my passcode
to get to this part of the Settings app.
So we're gonna scroll down
and tap Change Passcode.
Passcode options.
I feel like a lotta people just blow by this
when they're setting up their iPhone for the first side,
like, okay, I'll enter my four or six-digit passcode.
I just wanna use my phone,
but you've got a lotta options here.
So let's tap on Passcode Options.
You can do a custom numeric code,
so more than six digits,
or you can do a custom alphanumeric code,
workin' some letters there, too.
- All right, let's set that up on your phone.
All right, Custom Alphanumeric Code.
- So why would you wanna do this?
And isn't it the most annoying thing in the world?
So, four-digit passcodes are not very secure.
- Right. - And-
- We've talked about this with pin numbers actually,
where there's 20 pin numbers
that account for 33% of all pin numbers.
So pretty easy to get it into.
- Easy to get into.
Six digit, more secure.
This is super secure, but a lotta people think
that because they have face ID set up
and that's like one in a million in terms of accuracy
that they're actually secure.
But then they've got a four-digit passcode.
And just remember that on an iPhone,
everything comes back to the passcode.
Forget about the face and touch.
So all you would really have to do
is enter this once whenever you turned on your phone.
I mean, it's really not that big of a deal,
and it could be a lot more secure.
- Next up we wanna show you
how to see who is tracking you
when you're on a webpage in Safari.
Let's go back to the home screen,
and I'm gonna open up Safari.
Tap on that two a button there,
and then tap privacy report.
It says eight trackers prevented.
- [David Payette] That's good.
- And see, you can see current website here,
ESPN 30 trackers.
- Wow. - Yeah, we can tap into that,
and you can see trackers prevented from profiling you.
These are trackers trying to collect information about me.
- how do I find out more about these trackers
and what they're actually doing on my phone?
- Well, you could Google it.
- You (laughing) can at this point.
I just don't think this is super useful yet,
because they're not separating the okay ones,
like Google or Facebook.
It's not great, but it's not terrible,
versus other ones that might actually be just
taking your data from you, so.
- Next, a new iOS 15.4 feature.
A little bit overdue here,
but it's face ID while wearing a mask.
You used to be able to do this just with an Apple Watch.
Now you can do it without the Apple Watch.
- That's cool.
- [David Lynch] Let's show 'em how to set it up.
- All right. - Go to Settings.
Tap on Face ID & Passcode.
We were just there.
Obviously, you need to update your iPhone to iOS 15.4
for this to work,
and to learn more about iOS 15.4 we got a card above.
Whole video on the new features.
If you come down here face ID with a Mask.
Make sure that switch is on,
and then just pretty much the standard face ID process,
where you put the mask on and you move your face around.
But the way it works is that it notices
the small details in your eyes.
So just, when you're using this feature,
don't be surprised if it doesn't work all that well,
because you're wearin' a mask,
and sometimes that can come up a little bit.
And if you're wearin' a hat, it comes down a little bit,
and it's been pretty hit or miss for me.
- Yeah, me too.
- Next up, a feature called Back Tap.
Tap the back of your iPhone two or three times,
and it'll do somethin' cool.
- Yeah. - So how do we set that up?
Let's go back to the main page of the Settings app.
Tap on Accessibility.
Scroll down and tap on Touch.
Scroll down and tap on Back Tap.
So Double Tap, that would be two taps.
Triple tap, that's three taps.
Hope you can keep up.
- Yes, yes, it's two, two ha ha.
- Tap on Double Tap. (David Payette laughing)
So what do you want your iPhone to do
when you do the Double Tap?
A lot of people like the screenshot.
I think it's easier to press the buttons, but that's fine.
A lot of different stuff to choose from here.
- [David Payette] Yeah, people make videos
about this all the time,
and they're like the secret iPhone button.
So that's what this is.
- Yeah, I actually think this is pretty cool.
You can do Siri shortcuts, too.
So if you have a shortcut that you use often,
double tapping that I think is probably a bit easier
than going into the shortcuts app
or asking Siri to run the shortcut.
- Indeed.
It's a covert way to do it
- With iPhones getting larger and larger,
it's getting more and more difficult
to just type with one hand,
unless you have the iPhone SE, for instance,
but even me, I've got above average size hands,
I can't always reach across the screen
to type the letters that I want.
- Exactly.
- So we're gonna show you to turn on
the one-handed iPhone keyboard.
There are a couple ways to do this.
The hard way is to go into Settings and set it up there.
The easy way to do it
is if you're just sending a message already,
let's go into that.
I'm gonna go back to the home screen of my iPhone,
open the Messages app,
and then press and hold on the little
emoji smiley face character down there.
So you've got a couple options here.
You can see we've got the lefthanded keyboard
and the righthanded keyboard.
Let's tap on the righthanded keyboard,
and the whole thing just shifts over.
Neat.
- Neat.
It's like you're typin' on an iPhone 4 again.
Maybe you miss those days,
the tiny little phones.
- And to revert back, you can always just come up here,
make it big again.
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Next we have a couple of camera tips for you,
both involving the volume button.
That's interesting.
Well, let's go back to the Settings app.
Tap back to the main page of Settings.
One more.
And we're gonna go down to Camera.
- I think a lot of people are gonna be
thinking to themselves, I know this tip,
but I bet that you don't know both of them.
- So with that on Camera,
first thing we're talkin' about
is use volume up for burst.
Burst photographs just take a whole string of photos.
These are great for action shots.
So you can get a whole string of photos.
You get 30, you just want the one where it looks the best.
So if we go to the Camera app now,
really the compelling photography here,
but I can either press the volume button
to take save picture.
Or I can press and hold.
You can kinda see right there. - Holy geez.
- [David Lynch] Yep.
So I've got 30. - Look out, yep.
- 30.
- iCloud storage, time to buy some new ones.
- Yeah, so if you go into that photo here,
and I tap Select,
you can see all the different burst photos,
obviously they're gonna be the same
'cause it's a stationary iPhone, but-
- This is not a good use case for this feature.
- This is a really bad sell on this feature.
- But you could imagine that it is useful
in other use cases. - Yep,
you're at a sporting event.
You're trying to take a picture
of everyone jumping into the pool at once.
Something like that.
Great use for this feature.
And those are some hidden iPhone features
you might not have known about.
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